Our inspector's description of this service

The practice is neither a training nor dispensing service. The practice serves a population of approximately 6,400. The area served is slightly more deprived compared to England as a whole. The practice population is ethnically mixed, covering 55 languages from Europe and Africa in particular.

The practice serves a significantly above average population between the ages of 0 to 9 and 20 to 39 and a lower than average population over the age of 40.

The clinical staff team includes three male GP partners, two female practice nurses and a health care assistant. The team is supported by a practice manager and nine administration, reception and medical secretary staff.

Inspection ratings

We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:

Outstanding – the service is performing exceptionally well.

Good – the service is performing well and meeting our expectations.

Requires improvement – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Inadequate – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service.

No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider. Suspended ratings are being reviewed by us and will be published soon.

Ticks and crosses

We don't rate every type of service. For services we haven't rated we use ticks and crosses to show whether we've asked them to take further action or taken enforcement action against them.

There's no need for the service to take further action. If this service has not had a CQC inspection since it registered with us, our judgement may be based on our assessment of declarations and evidence supplied by the service.

The service must make improvements.

At least one standard in this area was not being met when we inspected the service and we have taken enforcement action.